Alexandre Oliva wrote:
Atleast in Fedora the division is clearly documented in the packaging guidelines.Which is and has always been incompatible with the stated goals of the Fedora project.
It may be worth pointing out here that Fedora currently only includes objectives/packaging-guidelines to be opensource/redistributable, not necessarily (100%) free, and wrt *this* conversation, the Board considered firmware to be an acceptable exception(1).
-- Rex(1) redistributability was considered good enough (for now), notably because firmware is tied to hardware, and doesn't run on the host cpu.